Two stories that have shown significant discriptions of a dystopian society would be the novel, Farhenheit 451, and the film, The Island. As dystopian societies, they both have a protagonist who ventures out of the rules and restrictions and finds a new beginning. Farhenheit 451’s protagonist, named Guy Montag, was dissapointed with his marrige, and the horrific distractions he faced throught his daily life.
With no books in his society, many citizens where uneducated with the divercity of their history and their beginnings. The Island’s protagonist, named Licoln 6-Eco, was tired of no answers to all his questions, and was annoyed with how his life never changed. He wanted more than just to go to ‘The Island’, and when he saw that ‘The Island’ was not real, he escaped. Bringing a friend, named Jordan 2-Delta, he faced the horrors of what the people wanted, and that was to live forever…
No matter the costs and losses. Even if that loss is their own clone. Essentially, both stories withhold a substantial amount of oppressive social control, they both appear perfect but in reality they have major problems, and both storylines have the protagonist who escapes and destruction of the horrible society becomes it’s fate. First, to make a well working dystopia, it needs a great amount of oppressive social control.
In Farhenheit 451, Guy Montag never has any time to his own, nor does he have time for his own thoughts, even on the subway train, “The people who had been sitting a moment before, tapping their feet to the rhythm of Denham’s Dentifrice, Denham’s dandy Dental Detergent, Denham’s Dentifrice, Denham’s Dentifrice Denifrice, one two, one two three, one two, one two three. The people whose mouths had been faintly twitching the words Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice. The train radio vomited upon Montag, in retaliation, a great tonload of music made of tin, copper, silver, chromium, and brass.
The people were pounded into submission; they did not run, there was no place to run; the great air train fell down its shaft in the earth. “(79) No one can think for themselves in Montag’s society. As the people in charge want it to be. The novel never stated who the people in power were, but they obviously wanted everyone to not think for themselves. On the other hand, with clones being brainwashed in The Island’s industrial insurance company basement, a video implants fake memories into the clones’ minds. As a man states to them, “You’re special. You have a very special purpose in life. You have been chosen.
The Island awaits you. ” The people in power lie to them about there being a contamination in their world. They give them a reason to live, which is the constant thought of going to ‘The Island’. Second, both stories show many ‘perfections’ but underneath it all, they have major problems. The bright and entertaining parlor walls in Farhenheit 451, are both very visualizingly disracting, but also they take away the person’s social life by keeping them entertained for so long. Also the seashell earbuds, they may be very fun to listen to, but they can brainwash you into all their advertisements and fake headlines.
As Guy says, “And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamed tight, and an electric ocean of sound, pf music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. “(12) Likewise, The Island’s whole concept of making clones and brainwashing them to have no free will or thinking is all a major problem. The clones, of course, don’t see that, but the people who are paying for them, should see the real effect of what they are doing. Killing people. But what it all comes down to in The Island, is as what Lincoln 6-Eco states himself, “I just want to live.
I don’t care how. ” Lastly, both protagonists escape their society and all the horrors that came along with it. And as a happy ending never fails, both stories’ dystopia’s were destroyed. “Montag crushed himself down, squeezing himself small, eyes tight… In that instant saw the city, instead of the bombs in the air. “(160) Guy Montag finally is able to escape, and when he does, his whole city is demolished my an atomic bomb, almost killing him and others along with it. All he had to do then was create a new and greater society.
One that had books available for reading and purchasing and keeping in one’s posetion. Lincoln 6-Eco wanted more than anything to destroy his building of which he and his friends were created. His closest friend, Jordan 2-Delta, had the same thoughts and wants as Lincoln. Being a team, they both escaped, and they also destroy the facility as planned. When everything turns perfect, Jordan 2-Delta says to Lincoln, “I’ve finally found ‘The Island’, Tom. It’s you. ” In conclution, both The Island and Farhenheit 451 show a wide veriety of reasons of its dystopian societies.
Guy Montag was able to see what his people were coming to, and in the end, he was able to escape it all and start out a new life. Lincoln 6-Eco found himself in an ongoing rut, so he went against what everyone said and folled his heart, and escaped, and with a lot of work, he was able to stop the cloning prossess and the whole insurence company down, ultimitely by demolishing it completely. All in all, Farhenheit 451 and The Island are great examples of dystopian societies, whether it’s their oppressive social control, it’s ‘perfect’ fake veiws of it’s world condemmed by it’s real problems underneath, or their protagonist who stops it all.
